The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-09-10
GAe 5lailg 8nllftin,
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1887.
OUR PARIS LETTER.
PARIS, August 3rd.

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and professional music, the results
in the department of tragedy and
comedy, were of the honorable me-
diocrity character; that is to say,
the same as in former years. Not q
genius, not even big gooseberry.
Respecting vocal and instrumental
music, the verdict is equally UNI
favorable. There is desire to en-
courage voices of the small childish
treble kind-the picolini sopranini,
in public; this explains why the
pupils lean to what pays. The COM
petition among the pianists was an
ordeal scores, by old and new mas
tiers, are mutilated as matter of
course. If the code, cannot sup
press the cutting up of women into
small morsels, il should at least
check the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of parti-
ton. One unfortunate piano head
to submit 70 execute the same weird,
morsel thirty-one times in success
sion. Berlioz held, an instrument
50 treated, would continue to exc
cute the air alone, or mad as
if Lijzt himself lead over the
keys. OF course prizes had to be
given away all the same. No sweet
girl graduates in their golden hair,
attacked, as the Toulouse Academy
OF music a few days ago, the jury,
on account of their awards. In the
time when that kind sceptic, Auber,
was director of the Conservatoire,
if q clamor was raised TO give a
young lady a second instead of
third prize, Auber CALAMITY APP
preached, after winking at his col
leagues, and said: "Madlle.. the
jury in accord with the public
awards you the second prize"
Sarah Benhardt has returned to
her good city of Paris, after sixteen
months absence, and a total travel
ing round the Americas, of 0,000
miles. The net gain to her after
that nomadic tour, is 800, 700 francs.
How that must make the mouths of
her creditors water! But Sarah has
left it in surety, where no hand can
touch it, in the States and in Eng
land. 1t is only when she plays on
French territory, that the law al
lows the slicing Of so much per
cent, off her salary, to wipe out old
liabilities. Travelling in the case of
Sarah Benhardt, certainly preserves
youth-relativeIy. Whenever she
feels out of sorts-and that, some
allege is not unfrequently, she takes
an iced bath. Such braces her up;
does not let an angry passions rise.
In the arctic regions, the inhabitants
are as gentle as lambs, and the
sledge dogs even are said, not to be
addicted to bark and bite-though
it is their so. When leaving Paris,
Sarah WEIGHED seven stones; on her
arrival, she at once weighed herself
and the result was identical. Cruel
people may observe, having only
skin and bone, she had no flesh to
lose. This may explain, how at
Trio, when 500 students lay down,
and carpeted a passage for her from
Hhe theatre to her carriage, she did
mot inhict on them the slightest
bodily injury. She killed three
lcrocodiles in Central America, and
their skins will be converted into
lslppers. She had o "tiger'-a
freal one, and deeply spotted; it is
young and guards her as such
'Tigerttes did Cleopatra. She is to
repose for two months, and during
Tthat time will .'return to her dear
{studies" as Theirs would say, sculp-
Iture and English. She is going to
isculp herself with her tigers paws
on her knees, and her English pro-
fessors has been re-engaged to
j-give her lessons from two or three q.
I'M. as usual. So she has a real
morning goyerness. Sarah has a
collection of silver and gold gilt
Aztec skulls, to hold trinkets, visit
ling cards, &c. She was never re-
Imarkable for foresight, but that is
mot wholly true, as she keeps her
fcoflin in her bedroom, and being q
(Jewess, naturally her winding sheets
)and derniere toilette.
Z M. de Lesseps has not received
all the money for his Panama loan
1that he expected; but he has ample
Ito carry on the works briskIy for
another twelve months; that period
will decide the fortunes of the canal.
R,Then what changes in year; as the
poet says: "Before a month, the
king, the ass, or / may be dead"
May the grand franchise live thou
sand years.
K An Austrian company has since
lsome years, been working the public
clocks of the city-some 10000 by
exhausted air. The mother pneuma-
tic tube has exploded, and the &C.,
900 pairs of hands went for hours,
whirling like wind mills. The gar
MUS struck up "C'est Boulanger
quiz mons fault"